The Wages of Procrastination
by Joel Aufrecht 11:54 PM, 06 Nov 2007
  • Due Monday (and completed): 3000 word research paper for SMIG (States, Markets, and International Governance). Mine was on the power struggles between state and non-state actors in the case of the Great Firewall of China and circumvention attempts. What does it mean, if anything, if the CIA funds private companies or non-profits to help Chinese citizens read the internet? The answer is good for 35% of the class grade.
  • Due Wednesday: eight-slide presentation for microeconomics. This is done with in our G3s, and happily my two partners were more on top of it than me. Our case was competition and the New York City taxi medallion market. This is 99.5% done as my G3 bats it around one last time.
  • Due Friday: ~2500 word paper for Negotiation. My topic is mismatches in negotiation styles. Cannot discuss the quantity of work done on this paper to date.
  • Due next Monday: first draft of field study for Theory and Practice; this is in our G5s; my group studied the Food Control Division of the Agri-Vet Authority. They were very generous with their time and gave us three rounds of interviews.
  • Due some time next week: Negotiation journal; 1500 word paper on our country graphs for microeconomics (that's in our G2; this is the Vietnam import/export graph with which we got help from the former Thai finance minister. That citation's going to look pretty good :).)
On the one hand I wish these assignments were better staggered; on the other hand, many of them were until students begs for postponements, and it's not like anything kept me from finishing them weeks early. I had a great first six weeks this semester and then started running out of steam. Time to finish strong. And thank goodness for classmates whose energy complements my laziness.
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